# limbus
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English limbus, from Latin limbus (“edge, border”).

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɪmbəs

### Noun

limbus (plural limbuses or limbi)
* (medicine, biology) A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea.

#### Derived terms

* limbal
* limbal ring

#### Related terms

* limbate

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɪmbus]

### Noun

limbus m inan
* limbo (place for innocent souls)
    Synonym: předpeklí

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “limbus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “limbus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “limbus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Latin
### Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly:
* from Proto-Indo-European *lemb- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”), the same tentative root as Sanskrit लम्बते (lambate, “hangs down”) and English limp, a nasal-infixed form of *leb-;
* or from Proto-Indo-European *len-, whence Lithuanian linta (“ribbon”) and Old Norse linnr (“whether”). (Can this etymology be sourced?)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈlim.bus/, [ˈlʲɪmbʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlim.bus/, [ˈlimbus]

### Noun

limbus m (genitive limbī); second declension
* A border, edge
    Synonyms: margō, ōra
* hem, fringe, tassel
    Synonyms: instita, ōra, patagīum
* (Ecclesiastical Latin) limbo

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* limbātus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: llimbs, limbe
* English: limbus, limbo, limbic
* French: limbe, limbique
* German: Limbus
* Italian: lembo, limbo
* Portuguese: limbo
* Russian: лимб (limb)
* Spanish: limbo

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “limbus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 341

### Further reading

* “limbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “limbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* limbus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* limbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “limbus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* limbus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “limbus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* lymbus, Limbus

### Etymology

From Latin limbus; compare lymbo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlimbus/

### Noun

limbus
* (Late Middle English, rare) limbo (waiting place for souls)
    Synonym: lymbo

#### Descendants

* English: limbus
* Scots: lymbus (obsolete)

#### References

* “limbus, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.